Penny

My activity:
Possibly my favourite review activity for elementary and middle school classes is Quick Bingo.
I write up ten to fifteen recently-learnt items that I want to review on the board.
Then I tell students that each should choose four items and write them down on a piece of paper, or in their notebooks.
I call out the items in random order; or call out their L1 translations; or call out hints or definitions.
Students cross off 'their' items as they hear them.
The first to cross off all their items is winner # 1.
The last to cross off all the items is winner # 2 (there is usually more than one).

I usually do at least two or three 'rounds'; the students have to choose a different set of four words for each 'round'.

Notes:

• This kind of BIngo saves you all the work of making BIngo boards.
• The idea of having two winners is first that students keep up their hopes of 'winning' right up to the last minute, and second, that you get through all the items instead of having to stop as soon as you have the first winner.
• It is a game, and students enjoy it.
• It enables me to go through the words several times, both form and meaning.
• Students are engaging with the words through three skills: reading, writing and hearing the words.
• Sometimes I use students to call out the words - then they have a chance to say them as well.